Posted on 07/03/2007 9:18:59 PM PDT by gpapa
Our Founders were talented men--and lucky ones too.
"You and I have been wonderfully spared," Thomas Jefferson wrote John Adams in 1812. "Of the signers of the Declaration of Independence I see now living not more than half a dozen on your side of the Potomak, and, on this side, myself alone." Jefferson and Adams were not merely signers of the Declaration. Both sat on the committee that drafted the document, and Jefferson wrote it. And while they later became bitter political opponents, they reconciled in their last years.
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Sorry, author should be Joyce Lee Malcolm
The fact that these two men should both die on July 4 (talking about each other) - and on the July 4 that was the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration - has always fascinated me.
For later study. Thanks.
Did you happen to see the one by Ted Nugent, occasional contributor to the WSJ Op Ed page, that was printed below this one? He slammed the "Summer of Love" and the whole 60's drug culture, having had a front-row seat himself. It's always thrilling when someone dares demolish sick cultural icons.
Happy Fourth of July!
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